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grand refractor telescope manufactured by Abruin Clark & Sons. He was a director and president of various banks and insurance com- panies in Chicago; was a founder in 1844 of t\\e Chicaijo American, established in support of Henry Clay for the presidency ; and in 1873 he establisiied the Inter Ocean, which he edited for several years. He also built the first Sweden- borgian churcli in Chicago, establisiied the Society of the New Jerusalem and tiie Illinois society of the Swedenborgian church, and was vice- president of the general convention of the Swe- denborgian church in the United States, for ten years. He introduced homeopathy into Chi- cago : founded Hahnemann hospital, and served as a trustee of tliat institution, and of Hahne- mann Medical college. He was also a trustee of the University of Chicago, and vice-president of its board of trustees; and was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1864 and 1872. He traveled in Europe. 18.37-60, and in tiie great fire of 1871 lost a large amount of propertv. Tlie honorary degree of LL.D. was con- ferred upon him by the University of Chicago in 1802. and by Water ville college (Colby) in 1869. He died in Chicago. 111.. March 17. 1890.

SCANLAN, Lawrence, R. C. bishop, was born in Ballintarsna. county Tipperary, Ireland, Sept. 28. 1843; son of Patrick and Catherine (Ryan) Scanlan. and grandson of Thomas and Mary (Fogarty) Scanlan. He was graduated in 1868 at All Hallows college, Dublin, where he was ordained priest, June 24, 1868. In the same year he came to the United States and was assistant at St. Patrick's, San Francisco, Cal., 1868-70, and at St. Mary's cathedral there, 1870-71. He was sent to Pioche, Xev., in 1871, where he built the first church in that section of the state ; and he was transferred to Petaluma, Cal., in 1872. In August, 1873, he was appointed pastor of Salt Lake city and Utah Territory, and subsequently vicar forane. He cleared the church in Salt Lake from debt, and purchased land upon which he built an academy in 1875. He also built churches, schools and hospitals, and in IbSO founded the College of All Hallows. On Jan. 25, 1887, he was appointed bishop of " Lavenden ■' in partibns, and vicar apostolic of Utah, and was consecrated in St. Mary's cathedral, San Francisco, Cal., June 29, 1S87. by Archbishop Riordan, assisted by Bishops O'Connell and Manogue. He was transferred as first bishop of the diocese of Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 30. 1H91.

SCANNELL, Richard, R. C. bishop, was born at Cloyne, county Cork, Ireland, May 12, 1845, He wa.s a student at the College of Mi<ldletown, Cork ; prepared for the priesthood at All Halluws, Dublin, and was ordained priest. Feb. 26, 1871. He came to the United States in 1871 ; was as-

sistant at St. Mary's cathedral, Nashville, Tenn.: in charge of St. Columba's church, and pastor of St. Mary's cathedral, successively, 1871-85. After Bishop Feehan left to assume charge of the archdiocese of Chicago, Father Scannell was ad- ministrator of the diocese of Nashville, 1880-83. He organized and was pastor of St. Joseph's church. West Nashville, Tenn., 1885-87. On Aug. 9, 1887, he was appointed bishop of the newly created diocese of Concordia, Kan., and was con- secrated in St. Mary's cathedral, Nashville. Tenn., Nov. 30, 1887, by Archbishop Feelian, a.ssisted by Bishop McCloskey of Louisville, and Bisliop Rademacher of Nashville. He was transferred to the diocese of Omaha, Neb., Jan. 30, 1891, as successor to the Rt. Rev. James O'Connor, D.D., deceased.

SCARBOROUGH, John, fourth bishop of New Jersey and 111th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Castlewellan, Ireland, April 25, 1831 ; son of John and Anna Bella Hannah Scarborough. He came to the United States with his mother in 1840; attended the public schools of Lansiugburg, N.Y.,and was graduated at Trinity college, Connecticut, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1857, and at the General Theological semi- nary, New York city, in 1857. He was admitted to the diaconate, June 28, 1857 ; advanced to the priesthood, Aug, 14, 1858, by Bishop Horatio Potter; was assistant at St. Paul's church. Troy. N.Y., 1857-60 ; rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1860-67. and of Trinity church. Pittsburgh. Pa., 1867-74. He was married. May 23, 1865, to Catharine Elizabeth, daughter of Theodore and Caroline Elizabeth (Meeker) Trivett of Poughkeepsie, New York, He served as a deputy to the general convention in 1871 and 1874, and was elected bishop of New Jersey as successor to the Rt. Rev. W^. H. Oden- heimer, transferred to the diocese of Northern New Jersey in 1875. He was consecrated in St. Mary's churcli. Burlington, N.J., Feb. 2. 1875, by Bishops Horatio Potter, Stevens. Kerfoot, Little- john. Doane, M. A. De Wolfe Howe, and Paddock. In 1900 was celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of his consecration.

SCARBOROUGH, Robert Bethea, rei.resc ti- tative, was born in Chesterfield, S.C., Oct. 29» 1861; son of the Rev. Lewis and Ann (Bethea) Scarborough ; grandson of Samuel and ^lary (Andrews) Scarborough ; and of William and Sarah (Hargrove) Bethea ; great-grandson of John and Nellie (Adams) Hargrove, and a descendant of John Bethea (Bcrtlioir). who came from Eng- land, and .settled in Virginia in the seventeenth century. He attended the common schools and tlie academy, Mullins, S.C. ; subsequently taught school, and stiidied law. He was married, Dec. 15, 1882, to Mary J. Jones; was admitted to the